the Governor of Formosa reported the amount of Lekin collected during the letter half to the past Chinese year. The Lekin in levied on Tea and-"ather articles of all kinds. The total amount was Tls. 23,372, from which one tenth must be deducted for expenses, The memorialist explains that the receipts in the second half of the year are never so great as in the earlier half, when the export trade is more brisk and moreover the half year under review happened to be a particularly bad one.
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